It took me more than 2 years of taking youtube somewhat seriously before I realized how easy it was to write subtitles for your videos. Considering that I write scripts for most of my videos, it was all a single copy-paste away. Well, better late than never, because now, you can see this video with subtitles, and I will go back and add them to some of my old videos as well.
Thank you! Yeah, I'm really tired of foam and silicone. Using foam as the core in a build like this is fine with me, but carving it was definitely the least interesting part of the process for me and I'm glad I didn't have to put more effort working on surface of it (like I would have to if I just painted it) I didn't really see any good ways to incorporate any plant pockets on the wall or the tree that would look seamless and natural without taking too much away from them. As you'll see next week though, I have a lot of cuttings of aroids and small climbers placed at the bottom of them, which will slowly but surely climb upwards, just like they would in nature. Once I get some moss established on the rock wall, I should probably be able to establish some epiphytes on that too
I'm sure you can use this in an arid tank. I was not familiar with decomposed granite until I googled it after seeing your comment, but I'm assuming it's somewhat heavy. The aggregates I used (perlite and vermiculite, as well as peat but that's for a slightly different purpose) are basically just air, and their weight is completely negligible, but despite that, the backgrounds still weigh quite a bit due to the cured cement etc (it's still far lighter than real rock, but it's not exactly light as styrofoam). If you make a large hypertufa background using even slightly heavy rocks the result will be very heavy (considering how thick the hypertufa layer will be and that the cement also has some weight). Even using pumice instead of perlite would be a large difference, despite pumice being much lighter than normal rocks.
Ska deff prova detta till mina whites treefrog. Gjorde den gammla vanliga fogskum, silikon och kokosfiber till min orm i vintras o fy tusan vilket kladd😵
It took me more than 2 years of taking youtube somewhat seriously before I realized how easy it was to write subtitles for your videos. Considering that I write scripts for most of my videos, it was all a single copy-paste away. Well, better late than never, because now, you can see this video with subtitles, and I will go back and add them to some of my old videos as well.
Hey nice one! I did a hypertufa background on my last vivarium and plants and moss grow on it much better than foam and silcone.
@@mkuc6951 I’d love to hear if you did anything differently or had any other experiences with the material!
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LOVE IT!!! Been thinking of doing this as I'm not really keen on the diy foam/silicone method. no plant pockets in the wall or tree? why not?
Thank you! Yeah, I'm really tired of foam and silicone. Using foam as the core in a build like this is fine with me, but carving it was definitely the least interesting part of the process for me and I'm glad I didn't have to put more effort working on surface of it (like I would have to if I just painted it)
I didn't really see any good ways to incorporate any plant pockets on the wall or the tree that would look seamless and natural without taking too much away from them. As you'll see next week though, I have a lot of cuttings of aroids and small climbers placed at the bottom of them, which will slowly but surely climb upwards, just like they would in nature. Once I get some moss established on the rock wall, I should probably be able to establish some epiphytes on that too
Great video!
Could this be used for an arid vivarium? Maybe with decomposed granite?
I'm sure you can use this in an arid tank. I was not familiar with decomposed granite until I googled it after seeing your comment, but I'm assuming it's somewhat heavy. The aggregates I used (perlite and vermiculite, as well as peat but that's for a slightly different purpose) are basically just air, and their weight is completely negligible, but despite that, the backgrounds still weigh quite a bit due to the cured cement etc (it's still far lighter than real rock, but it's not exactly light as styrofoam). If you make a large hypertufa background using even slightly heavy rocks the result will be very heavy (considering how thick the hypertufa layer will be and that the cement also has some weight). Even using pumice instead of perlite would be a large difference, despite pumice being much lighter than normal rocks.
Ska deff prova detta till mina whites treefrog. Gjorde den gammla vanliga fogskum, silikon och kokosfiber till min orm i vintras o fy tusan vilket kladd😵
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